Millennial Learners and Self Directed Learning

What learning did Maya engage in to expand her business

• Analyze supply and demand in her environment• Learn how to budget-• Research companies to verify authenticity• Trial and error• Took Chinese utilize the language• Inter business communication skills• Time management• Risk management• Discipline-• Had to take her idea from a small simulation to a larger scale real

project.

What learning did Maya engage in to expand her business?

• Had to engage in economics research related to the prices of competitors.

• Had to analyze her business structure and the supply and demand of her local environment.

• Risk manangement.• Time management and opportunity costs• Global communication and its complexities.• The experience of success and school as a priority• Changed her business to focus on other businesses.

What school subjects connect to Maya’s experience

• Principles of economics• Businesses• Global economy and child labor laws• Analyze why Chinese companies are so much

cheaper• Trade deficit

What would have been overlooked if a teacher expected less of Mike due to his difficult background?

• Considerable goals and accomplishments• It would have diminished his future, because

he had high expectations of himself.

What did Ms. Bishop do that made a positive impact upon Mike and others

• She took their goals seriously• She asked for their opinion• She befriended “the bad kids”

What independent learning did Mike engage in?

• He learned how to use industry standard software.

• He identified different types of music that he wanted to listen to and incorporate into his production.

• He took a music theory class.

What basic lesson of success did Mike learn from making the CD?

• Hard work pays off.